All Quotes

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

One of my fears would be getting torn apart by a great white shark. I love the ocean, but I always have this deep fear of getting torn apart by a great whitey.
‐‐ Theo James

One of my feet is a whole size longer than the other. One is size ten, the other is size eleven.
‐‐ Nnedi Okorafor

One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
‐‐ Lars Ulrich

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.
‐‐ Jacob Latimore

One of my first commercials was for a Samsung cellphone. It was made as a mini-movie.
‐‐ Margarita Levieva

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.
‐‐ Isaac Hempstead Wright

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda

One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'
‐‐ Tom Everett Scott

One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.
‐‐ Mary Berry

One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card.
‐‐ Frankie J. Alvarez

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
‐‐ K. A. Applegate

One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
‐‐ Dave Mustaine

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.
‐‐ Steve Brown

One of my friends, picture of health, worked out his whole life, never had a weight problem. Calls me up one day and says, 'I have pancreatic cancer.' Gone. I've lost too many friends.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
‐‐ Jack Dee

One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That's probably a little less true with business audiences, but in general, there tends to be this view that for-profit companies are greedy, and nonprofits are noble. It's absolutely more complicated than that.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.
‐‐ Eric Swalwell

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.
‐‐ Derek Theler

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
‐‐ Ron Rash

One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
‐‐ Charlie Puth

One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

One of my goals is to have this incredible body. I want to be strong, to be ripped.
‐‐ Adrienne Bailon

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
‐‐ Lydia Ko

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
‐‐ Amber Tamblyn

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.
‐‐ Marilyn Nelson

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
‐‐ Colin Firth

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!
‐‐ Charles R. Swindoll

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
‐‐ Patti Smith

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
‐‐ Martin Short

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
‐‐ Sonny Perdue

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.
‐‐ Nobu Matsuhisa

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
‐‐ Bill Nighy